Progress of the national programme and achievements of scientific researches on schistosomiasis elimination in China / 中华疾病控制杂志

ABSTRACT

The paper reviewed the progress of the national schistosomiasis control programme in the last 70 years in China, and summarized the achievements of both the programme and scientific researches in four different stages of the programme. In particular, on the basis of the analytic results in promotion effectiveness and gaps of control strategies in different control stages, the theoretic foundation in on-going battle actions to eliminate schistosomiasis in whole country by using the integrated strategy with emphasis of infectious sources control was analyzed. The scientific and technological achievements in the process of communication control and elimination was compared, and the practicalness of precision control of schistosomiasis was put forward at technical point of view. Finally, it was recommended how to put the precision control efforts into practice at national level in the schistosomiasis elimination stage.